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You have to reach Operating Thetic Level III before that is revealed to you. It costs $400,000.

Not really, since the 40k setting is a pastiche of everything you could possibly think to throw in it, having been created collaboratively by hobbyists as a side thing to the tabletop game and spared over-management from above

But that was back in the 90s. It's been over-managed into the ground for longer than it was great at this point. The writing was on the wall when they started whoring out shitty novels and letting talentless faggots like Matt Ward retrofit the entire universe and all its existing lore to service their own pet canon.

When people say 40k, they mean how it was when they were a kid. It's been shit for years.

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>>9900028
Yeah but who pays attention to modern happenings atm? As far as I can tell having any canon progression was always going to end in tears.

The fact is that humanity is by default the player character unless you're an elf fag and the whole idea was that it was a point in time where multiple horrors each with the ability to eradicate humanity were converging.

Still its got to be said that the first few books of the Horus Heresy qualify as "good trash" and some of the Imperial Guard tabletop rpg fan fiction I've read was actually quite entertaining

I have a friend that loves to read these books. He describes them as shallow but makes up for it in quantity.

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got these to read, stopped reading 14th deadly sin after 3 chapters

>>9899963
Are you 13?

They're both ridiculous hacks. if you want a good detective story you need to go to Hammett or Chandler. Christie writes things that are insulting to an audience's intelligence.

Like, reasonably good fun for a silly summer holiday read or something but in terms of being qualitatively good, no way.

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>>9900723

It's too edgy for the teen audience and too unrelatable for the adult audience.

>>9899774
Really? I thought it was just on par with 13 reasons why.

>>9899780
Well, I mean its an interesting conundrum and I suppose it would be interesting to some people, but while I can't say it's not original, the themes behind it are terribly unoriginal.

-The 'misunderstood' loner kid
-The popular, but secretly malicious "chad"
-The bumbling, inept adults who don't know what's really going on
-'Some mysterious event occurs which makes everyone suspicious of each other, Gee Willikers, the everyday school life really got flipped upside down!

There would need to be some other aspect of the story which would be unique to you, or which comes as more of a surprise, otherwise all it would ever be is "that book that was kind of like 13 Reasons Why' or whatever.

Just reading the synopsis i would put it back on the shelf without a seconds thought

>>9899714
Self help philosophy ?
Uhm try any american interpretation of buddhism.
Its gonna suck tho and has no real value.
Carlos castanada the teachings of don juan gets close as a fun read and has positive spiritual values.

>>9899719
Separate question, but where does one even start a serious study of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy?

>>9899714
>I'm so dumb I need books to explicitly prescribe me a ready made life strategy instead of constructing one myself intuitively from the reading of any great book

Unironically kill yourself /r9k/ loser, that's the best self help advice you'll find

>>9899679
Thanks for posting that. Here's the oirignal:

Una Rosa y Milton

De las generaciones de las rosas
Que en el fondo del tiempo se han perdido
Quiero que una se salve del olvido,
Una sin marca o signo entre las cosas

Que fueron. El destino me depara
Este don de nombrar por vez primera
Esa flor silenciosa, la postrera
Rosa que Milton acercó a su cara,

Sin verla. Oh tú bermeja o amarilla
O blanca rosa de un jardín borrado,
Deja mágicamente tu pasado

Inmemorial y en este verso brilla,
Oro, sangre o marfil o tenebrosa
Como en sus manos, invisible rosa.

I think you can get quite far with just Bird by Bird and King's On Writing. Maybe check out War of Art so you can continue to put your ass in your chair and write erryday.

>>9899567
The final redpill is basically Stirner

>>9899567
yes it is, but there is nothing you can do about it. every action you take in order to "kill your ego" is only the ego in different form. no activity can dissolve the "me" from which the activity itself emerges.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was one of my first introductions to philosophy but the Civ series since 4 has been watered-down pleb shit

Looks like a pretty cool list

It's a good list, at least what I read from it.
I'm pretty sure that kids don't play anything that would make them interested in reading though. Most of my nephews enjoy only Minecraft, DotA, and FOTM survival games. One of them was reading some new book about Illidan from Warcraft when I visited last. I got my son to play Pathologic (I see it here occasionally) and he seems to be reading my older stuff now from what I can tell. Maybe that influenced him, I don't know.

>>9899383
>http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Work_(Civ5)#Great_Writers

These lists are okay. I also imagine it's an easy list to mod.

I like the CIV series. It isn't perfect, but as a kid it got me interesting in knowing more about history. The Civilipedia entries, the in game glossary, was sometimes a bit limited. I remember the Civ 3 article on Fascism being particularly uninformative, but at least honest about the disputes around defining fascism

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start with the greeks, obviously.

>>9899355
Greeks -> Romans -> Christian theology / the Bible -> Italians (Dante / Boccacio) -> Chaucer -> Shakespeare.
After that you'll have a very solid background in /lit/ and you can confidently pursue what you're interested in with a great background in the stuff everyone great writer would know.
You can find the charts you'll need in the sticky.

Just start reading what you want, history, philosophy, literature, fantasy, whatever. If you want recommendations, there are almost always threads up for different things. Don't go by the top 100 lists until you feel ready.

Real or not I agree with the sentiments 100% tbqfwyf

>>9899275
Deontology is so fucking retarded.

Illuminatus!
Foucault's Pendulum
Gravity's Rainbow

>>9900900
From the synopsis of the first two I'm under the impression they're little more than haute society circlejerk on occult topics.

Troll thread about a figure no one's ever heard of, but he also revolutionized the study of Romanesque architecture in the US, allowing art historians to take Gothic art seriously, rather than as a forgotten stepping-stone between antiquity and the Renaissance.

>>9899131
>>9899928
nice